Jess Morgun was born and raised in Saskatoon, where she currently works as a practicing artist and teaches art at Bedford Road Collegiate. She holds an MA in Religious Studies (Regent College, 2012) and an MFA (University of Saskatchewan, 2017).

Her work is drawing-based, site specific, and relational. It explores the potency of objects and materiality, circling around the nature and meaning of things that populate everyday life, their human and non-human atmospheres, and the role memory and perception play in how we construct the real. Her drawings reference the shadows left behind by missing objects, or render personal items, rocks, and ruins in highly realized monochrome. Her ceramic work grows out of descriptions of missing objects, resulting in sculptures that feel familiar, yet strange. Many of her pieces change or unfold over time, occasionally taking on an interactive or performative quality.

She has exhibited throughout Western Canada, including a two-person show with artist Tamara Rusnak at the Art Gallery of Regina, solo exhibitions at Lookout Gallery (Vancouver) and Harcourt House (Edmonton), and group shows at Neutral Ground (Regina), Chapel Gallery (North Battleford), and the Mann Art Gallery (Prince Albert), along with a billboard project at PAVED Arts (Saskatoon) and local and international artist residencies. She has been supported by SK Arts and the Canada Council for the Arts, and was the 2019 recipient of the Jane Turnbull Evans Award from the Saskatchewan Foundation for the Arts.